What Is the Autism Spectrum?

*pregnant women

Saying "white" is insensitive. You should use the phrase "European American" instead.

First: English isnt my 1st or even 2nd language so I apollegize if my spelling being bad and message gets lost in translation or seem ranty.

Second: So I was late diagnosed with autism, a little over 12 years ago when my social worker refered to me a doctor for testing. The thing is that I dont feel like my fellow autists in my autism support group(we are about 31 +- memebers at the moment), I understand there are varying "levels" on the spectrum but man I feel like an outsider, I bad socially, but not even in the same ball park as the others from the group. I'm sensitive to light and noices and I hyper fictate and I have been practicing "masks" since i was 12(on my own accord since I at that point had noticed that I was diffrent to the other kids) , but again no where near anyone in my group. I feel like live in a gray zone inbetween, I'm too autistic to function propper with non nerodirverse people, but too well functioning too function with my fellow autists in the group. Was working as a sort of middle man and primus motor for the group for awhile(5 years give or take) but this got too overwhelming since both sides, the people I interpreted for and too, just started to relay too much on me, like when parents use their kid/mutual freind to bring messages to one another when they are fighting over an argument. I crashed so hard that I'm now considered too "disabled" for work.
I only really function as a moderator on our forum and discord now and that is due to some of them sometimes posts troublesome/disturbing/unsettling things for the rest of the members. Like a suprisingly high amount of oure younger members(age about range 16-25) wanting a dictatorship, so they wont have to deal with voteing, shifting government and the "chaos" of everyday life in a changing world, where the older members wanting personal freedoms and fear that they will be pointed out or used as a topic of hate by politicians. We also have non neurodivergent moderators(goverment assigned social workers and parents), but most of them are older and not too confortable with IT, so they mostly do what they always do, which is to relay on me and two other group memebers to tag them in posts that requires authority/parental guidence, its exhausting to be honest.
Feels like I "evolved"(sorry if i used the word wrong)/was brought up to be a bridge person between neurodivergent and non neurodivergent people while not being seen by anyone one belonging. I even travled around, and that was a biiiig stress factor, to other autism groups too see if it was just my local group I didnt get a sense of "belonging" to, with the same negative results. I even tried special interrests clubs, like warhammer fantasy and 40k, roleplay and such hobbies, since i have a like for those things, but still the feeling of being and outsider remains.
Got tested for ADHD and Schizophrenia, but the doc said that the test results didnt match so thats a deadend. I also got told to look up imposter syndrom, but it didnt really fit me enough to be considered.

So with that being said is there a word for what I am? A word or words to make is easier to explain to people my struggles without turning conversation into an essay about the diffrences between me and other people on the spectrum.

Third: I liked the video

Kind regards
Z

Nonononono, "Autism Avenue" was not where you'd gone too far with the metaphor, it's where you bailed from the metaphor way too early!

i just read a school case in my country about the exact same thing scishow talk about at 17:40. The kid was 15, diagnosed child autism and had a bad reaction when the teacher took the ipad away after a confrontation with another classmate. Kicking, screaming, biting, scratching, throwing anything, spitting, death threats and a complete loss of self was the reaction. It ended with 3 teacher sitting on him for 30min until he calmed down. Been a bit of talk afterwords about how the situation should have been handled since the kid obviously can't be around that teacher anymore. And if it was ok to restrain him with force like that. His parents are not happy how the situation was handled by the school either. The school just pass it like nothing, implying that all kids need to be put in place at some point.

5:19 does this mean you can have autism is you weren’t born with it? Sorry if that’s a stupid question..

I hear ya, I hear ya - and I get "asperger" got phased out. But I wished it was replaced by another term, because autism is waaaaay to wide of a spectrum, and confuses the hell out of people.

*specifically

soecifically...
WHAT is autism?
WHAT defines it?
PLEASE STOP just ASSUMING that it is a thing.

There is also the possibility that these are several diseases that manifest in the same way.

The line between extreme personality variation, cultural expectation, and genuine neurological difference is not clearly drawn.

6:14 me and my homies live in Autism Avenue

As someone with ASD and someone who has spent a lot of time around other people with ASD, this sounds about right.

WOW! “Autism Spectrum” Spectrum

Autism Orrr, as it's called down south,
"Boy ain't right"🤪

I keep hopping careers because I have a learning addiction, how do I software with a system brain? I already know literacy and base2 by heart so I struggle with where to apply to something that feels meaningful. My family is hard to be around because they are Transactional, religious in a prideful way and gossipy with their own politics.

8:01 - pregnant people? C'mon..

Chimps trying to understand quantum computing, why doesn't science just say they don't yet understand? If your neurotypical thank your lucky stars there are neurodivergent, without them we would all be still in caves.

6:13 “Autism Avenue” would be such a great band name

0:47 or you could be a random bloke in Aus, who's run the day to day security of the treasury, coached a major sport and responded to major incidents on motorways.
Only to realise at forty that you're different and don't belong. 😢

I have autism. Btw

Thank you for the video. If you are willing and able, would you mind doing a related video on Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy (MeRT)? I stumbled on a video on the subject from an episode of The Doctors and the subject has piqued my curiosity as a parent of a non-verbal autistic child regarding its benefits and, of course, long term side effects. Thanks again.

I can't express how happy I am that you didn't call us "people with autism"
God I hate that term.

https://youtu.be/qJ01z-byuvM?si=-wHv0Odqy7tG9POf

I really like the study that people with autism communicate just as well w each other as neurotypicals . The issue is also the neurotyptical world

Just got diagnosed! Saw this recommended and figured there might be something I don't know

Does anyone else desperately want to smooth the upholstery behind Hank?